Category: Child Support

associated with the criminal justice system, especially incarceration, and actively exploring diverse alternatives to it that proponents say reduce recidivism, improve life outlooks for offenders and cost society significantly fewer dollars. One such alternative is readily apparent in a number of Georgia counties, focusing on non-custodial parents who have fallen behind on child support payments. […]

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Georgia parents contemplating divorce often and for obvious reasons are centrally concerned with matters surrounding child support, with distinct and quite separate issues coming into play for a parent seeking support and the parent who will be tasked to pay it, respectively. Through its website, the State of Georgia seeks to respond to those questions […]

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Similarly to many other divorces, child support duties often figure into high-asset divorces. Former professional basketball player and high-profile personality Dennis Rodman recently found out how seriously a court construes child support and timely payment of obligations, following his being found in contempt of court and ordered to pay $500,000 to his ex-wife. According to […]

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Former Atlanta Falcons football star and Hall of Fame standout player Deion Sanders was always the flashiest of players, tagged with the sobriquets “Neon Deion” and “Primetime” and seemingly never far from a camera. These days, seemingly, he is never far from a courtroom, with the publicity he is receiving anything but welcome. “I’m just […]

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As this blog has noted in prior select posts, Internet social media sites have exploded with relevance across a broad spectrum of family law and divorce-related concerns over the past couple years. Regularly recurring stories underscore how the cavalier use of a site such as Facebook — for example, as a repository for pictorial evidence […]

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Paternity testing has come a long way in recent years, with most experts now readily noting that issues relating to accessibility and reliability are largely past-tense concerns. There are more testing facilities, and DNA technology has made a great leap forward in all respects in a short amount of time. In Georgia, and across the […]

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The website for the Georgia Department of Human Services states that when parents cannot or will not adequately care for their children, “someone must step in to ensure the children’s safety.” In the case of ex-NFL star running back Jamal Lewis, that “someone” is collectively the state’s Division of Family and Children Services, law enforcement […]

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Most long-term football fans know who Andre Rison is. Rison played at a high level for a number of years in the National Football League, including a lengthy stint in Georgia with the Atlanta Falcons. People who don’t follow pro sports might not know much — if anything — about that. Chances are, though, that […]

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We last reported on developing news in former boxing champion Evander Holyfield’s child support dispute with the Georgia Department of Human Services (GDHS) in our June 11 blog post. As we noted therein, Holyfield has had continuing and long-term difficulties keeping current with the payment obligations he owes for several of the 12 children he […]

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In Atlanta, as elsewhere in the U.S., failure to pay child support can have serious consequences. This is the case regardless of whether the parents who had the child together were ever married and divorced. Even if a couple was never married, child support obligations can come into play. In fact, this is happening right […]

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